A history of the variolous epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819 and destroyed 530 individuals; with an estimate of the protection afforded by vaccination, and a review of past and present opinions upon chicken-pox and modified smallpox / by John Cross.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A history of the variolous epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819 and destroyed 530 individuals; with an estimate of the protection afforded by vaccination, and a review of past and present opinions upon chicken-pox and modified smallpox / by John Cross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    sacrifice to this horrid disease, give the follow- ing table in regard to their ages, and I have been careful in arranging it correctly, that it may be compared with the next chapter of this work. Under two years of age Aged from two to four years four to six six to eight eight to ten ten to fifteen fifteen to twenty — twenty to thirty — thirty to forty — 530 - - - - - 260 132 - - - - - 85 - - - - - 26 17 5 2 1 The bills of mortality do not include the burials in some of the hamlets of Norwich, and therefore a few more may be added to the list of deaths; and having found, by observa- tions derived from various sources, that pro- bably one in six of all who were affected with the epidemic have died of it, I am convinced it number*wh« is not far from the truth to assert, that consider- small-pox ably above 3000 individuals, or a thirteenth part of the whole population of Norwich, had the small pox in the year of which I am writing* An immense proportion of these were seized with the disease in May, June, July and